Image #19 is the sports page (paginated page 37 in the paper)... "Penguins Look Good Despite Loss". Another article on same page about Jean Beliveau getting goal #400 in that game. The boxscore is on page #39, which includes full rosters (a rarity in the land of the Press). A photo is there on that page too, which shows the Habs in white and the Pens in blue, and highlights Captain Ab McDonald #20.

And, in what may be the most detailed recap I've seen in long, long time, is this one from the Pirates first win against the Habs in Montreal - a 1-0 duel between Worters and Vezina (1st period, left due illness)/Lacroix (2nd-3rd) that took place on November 28, 1925.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tR ... %2C2024418

Image #19 is the sports page (paginated page 37 in the paper)... "Penguins Look Good Despite Loss". Another article on same page about Jean Beliveau getting goal #400 in that game. The boxscore is on page #39, which includes full rosters (a rarity in the land of the Press). A photo is there on that page too, which shows the Habs in white and the Pens in blue, and highlights Captain Ab McDonald #20.

How about Connie Hawkins throwing in 31 for the Pittsburgh Pipers? A few years ago on EBay I bought a Pittsburgh Pipers t-shirt - great logo.

relantel wrote:And, in what may be the most detailed recap I've seen in long, long time, is this one from the Pirates first win against the Habs in Montreal - a 1-0 duel between Worters and Vezina (1st period, left due illness)/Lacroix (2nd-3rd) that took place on November 28, 1925.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tR ... %2C2024418

For those of you who don't know the story, Georges Vezina was taken out of this game because he was dying, though they did not know it just then. He was coughing up blood during the game and after he was removed, he never played again. Several months later, he was dead of tuberculosis.

Another interesting factoid about this game is that it was played at the Mount Royal Arena, which did not have artificial ice, and was dependent on freezing weather to stage games. If you think it is cold inside the CEC, imagine how cold it must have been to be a spectator in that arena.

10/25/67 - PG recap mistakenly refers to the Penguins as the Hornets when talking about Ab McDonald's 2 goals (2nd bolded paragraph below the boxscore), despite using Penguins multiple times in the same article. Hard habit to kick, I suppose, given the long history of the Hornets.

Today's useless stat: complete list of Game-Tying goals (last goal scored in a tie game - i.e. Pens were behind when each of these goals were scored. Ties where the Pens surrendered the lead gave the other team the GTG).

This one was compiled manually - not a stat I recall seeing in any of the Pens media guides I had, and NHL.com list is incomplete as it stops somewhere around 87-88. The GTG stat itself appears to no longer be credited in the shootout era, which makes sense to a degree since the Game-Deciding goal stat came to be.

In 1999-2000, when the "Regulation Tie" stat was born, that season they included the RT numbers in the losses while also denoting them separately. Such that the Pens were 37-37-8-6 in the media of the day. Now, the NHL shows that season record as 37-31-8-6.

Trying to figure out when the NHL went back and changed their handling of the 99-00 team records? The only thing I can determine is it was sometime before March 2, 2009 (the oldest web.archive.org listing for the NHL's current URL for the 99-00 standings - http://web.archive.org/web/200903020840 ... 0&type=CON ).

It would be his only game played with the Penguins, notching a minor penalty in a 6-4 loss. Wendell Young was tagged for the loss, having allowed the 5th goal. He would be traded to Winnipeg the following summer in the Cunneyworth et al-Gilhen et al deal.

Image #19 is the sports page (paginated page 37 in the paper)... "Penguins Look Good Despite Loss". Another article on same page about Jean Beliveau getting goal #400 in that game. The boxscore is on page #39, which includes full rosters (a rarity in the land of the Press). A photo is there on that page too, which shows the Habs in white and the Pens in blue, and highlights Captain Ab McDonald #20.

How about Connie Hawkins throwing in 31 for the Pittsburgh Pipers? A few years ago on EBay I bought a Pittsburgh Pipers t-shirt - great logo.

was in 68-69, a crowd of less than 3000. Christmas day in 1968, a 6-3 win over the Red Wings, with goals by Pronovost, Burns, McCreary (2), Schinkel, and Angotti. McCreary's second was the winning goal. Attendance was 2420. It was only the 7th win of the season. Capacity in 1968-69 was published as 12580.

"Then there is the building itself. Completed four years ago at a cost of $22 million, the 12,580-seat arena is not entirely right for sports events. Soundproofed throughout, it is great for Johnny Cash but tough on the home team. "The fan who pays $5 to $7 for a ticket there doesn't get his money's worth," said an official from another NHL club. "He sees the game O.K., but it's so quiet in there he doesn't feel it. He doesn't get the excitement you get in places like St. Louis and Philadelphia and Minnesota. Or even in Oakland. Why, 5,000 people in Oakland's arena sound like 10,000 when they get worked up. In Pittsburgh 5,000 people sound like 2,000."

The "completed four years ago" statement was incorrect. Should have read "eight years ago".

Anyone able to find a decent write-up on Lemieux's 5 goals 5 different ways game? I looked through the Pittsburgh papers online and found the recap, but no actual article on the game. I guess everyone was still hung over from New Year's eve.